Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms

The study of animal behaviour is one of the fastest growing sub-disciplines in biology. The resulting diversity of conceptual approaches and methodological innovations makes it increasingly difficult for professionals and students to keep abreast of important new developments. This edited volume pro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Anthes, Nils (Autor), Bergmüller, Ralph (Autor), Blanckenhorn, Wolf (Autor), Brockmann, H. Jane (Autor), Fichtel, Claudia (Autor), Fromhage, Lutz (Autor), Frommen, Joachim (Autor), Goymann, Wolfgang (Autor), Heinze, Juergen (Autor), Hirschenhauser, Katharina (Autor), Hofer, Heribert (Autor), Kaiser, Sylvia (Autor), Kappeler, Peter M. (Autor, Editor ), Kempenaers, Bart (Autor), Kerth, Gerald (Autor), Korb, Judith Ingrid (Autor), Kotrschal, Kurt M. (Autor), Kraus, Cornelila (Autor), Manser, Martha (Autor), Michiels, Nico (Autor), Moritz, Robin F. A. (Autor), Pahl, Mario (Autor), Penn, Dustin (Autor), Sachser, Norbert (Autor), Schaefer, Martin (Autor), van Schaik, Carel P. (Autor), Schneider, Jutta M. (Autor), Schreiber, Isabella (Autor), Taborsky, Michael (Autor), Tautz, Jürgen (Autor), Trillmich, Fritz (Autor), Zhang, Shaowu (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Temas:
Psychobiology.
Human behavior.
Evolution (Biology).
Animal migration.
Neurosciences.
Behavioral Neuroscience.
Evolutionary Biology.
Animal Migration.
Neuroscience.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Communication and cognition
  • Visual communication: evolution, ecology, and functional mechanisms
  • Vocal communication in social groups
  • Kin recognition: an overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory
  • Honeybee cognition
  • Individual performance in complex social systems: the greylag goose example
  • Conflict and cooperation
  • Conflict and conflict resolution in social insects
  • Social insects, major evolutionary transitions and multilevel selection
  • Cooperation between unrelated individuals - a game theoretic approach
  • Group decision-making in animal societies
  • Parental care: adjustments to conflict and cooperation
  • Sex and reproduction
  • The quantitative study of sexual and natural selection in the wild and in the laboratory
  • Mate choice and reproductive conflict in simultaneous hermaphrodites
  • Extra-pair behaviour
  • Extreme polyandry in social Hymenoptera: evolutionary causes and consequences for colony organisation
  • Monogynous mating strategies in spiders
  • Mating systems, social behaviour and hormones
  • Behavioural variation
  • The social modulation of behavioural development
  • Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes
  • Animal personality and behavioural syndromes
  • Social learning and culture in animals
  • Levels and mechanisms of behavioural variability.

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